Speaker 1: Welcome to bener Roll three sixty Rugby League from every angle.
Speaker 2: Join him in the Great Gordon Tallas.
Speaker 1: It's been the genero Australian Paul Crawley and Dean Richie.
Speaker 2: You're back, Gordon.
Speaker 3: Back, mate, one of the lucky ones. Are still a
Speaker 3: few people there without power and everybody's underwater, but one
Speaker 3: of the lucky ones.
Speaker 2: What's good to have you back.
Speaker 1: We're going to get to the race is on to
Speaker 1: replace Dylan Brown at the Paramatta Eels.
Speaker 2: But first I want to get the reaction from you two.
Speaker 1: What were your thoughts with this decision to go to Newcasts, mate.
Speaker 4: It's a great deal for Dylan Brown and his management
Speaker 4: have done a tremendous job.
Speaker 2: I just think for the.
Speaker 4: Club and not necessarily the coach and the people in
Speaker 4: charge at this present point, but for the club it
Speaker 4: puts a noose around their neck.
Speaker 2: For ten years.
Speaker 4: They've paid top dollar to bring in a bloke who,
Speaker 4: no doubt on his day is up with the best
Speaker 4: players in the game. But they've brought him in to
Speaker 4: do a job that he hasn't proven he can do
Speaker 4: and so the pressure is going to be huge on him.
Speaker 4: But for the club itself. I just think it's a
Speaker 4: huge gamble.
Speaker 5: History will ultimately determine whether this decision is right or not.
Speaker 6: It is, in my eyes, the most contentious signing in
Speaker 6: terms of ability versus asking price in an aural history.
Speaker 6: I don't think we've had a bigger signing for a
Speaker 6: player that I don't think is worth a million bucks
Speaker 6: to get one point three.
Speaker 5: But the Knights are incredibly comfortable.
Speaker 6: They today said quoite unquote, we won't lose a wink
Speaker 6: of sleep over this, so they know what they've bought.
Speaker 6: You think of Fletcher Sharp, Kaylon Ponger, Dylan Brown, it
Speaker 6: is going to be one potent side throwing their phoenix, Crossland,
Speaker 6: Bradman Best.
Speaker 5: You've got a top fourteen.
Speaker 3: You can't look at the way Dylan played on the
Speaker 3: weekend because Paramatta were pretty ordinary. But when he played
Speaker 3: with Mitchell and they're at their best break and there's
Speaker 3: a partnership, do you think the way he plays is
Speaker 3: so direct? Do you think he will open up Kaylen Palmer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he will open up Klen.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that because just as he's a
Speaker 1: really good player, you know, so he's got the great footwork, speed, He's.
Speaker 2: Got X factor right, so he's going to even a quick.
Speaker 1: Play the ball from Brown is going to create time
Speaker 1: and space that Calen doesn't have at the moment. You know,
Speaker 1: any any danger or any threat inside of Kaylan at
Speaker 1: present is going to make him a better player than
Speaker 1: what he already is. And Kaylan's playing some great footy
Speaker 1: over the past couple of seasons. But I think that
Speaker 1: the big one is you know that the game control
Speaker 1: the genuine seven that the wins premierships, because that's essentially
Speaker 1: what they're bought him for.
Speaker 2: He's not he's not proven. He's proving half back.
Speaker 6: He'll be first receiver at paramattas we know, he's on
Speaker 6: the left hand edge and Mitchell runs the show. He's
Speaker 6: not as cruel said a half back per se. But
Speaker 6: look at Cooper Kronk, look at Jerome Hughes. That can
Speaker 6: be molded into as this.
Speaker 3: Madi or Andrew back to help him learn to play seven.
Speaker 1: Well, just on that two of the sharpest minds in
Speaker 1: rugby league don't think that.
Speaker 2: He is a seven.
Speaker 7: Dylan can impact a game heavily, can have a big
Speaker 7: impact on a game, but to do that he needs
Speaker 7: someone alongside him to control the game.
Speaker 5: That's what he needs. Dylan is an explosive player.
Speaker 7: He impacts the game through moments. He's not a seven,
Speaker 7: he's a six. Dylan's game is the game of a deputy.
Speaker 7: He's a reactive player. He's a deputy. He is a
Speaker 7: pure six. Hell of a six, very good six, but
Speaker 7: he ain't a seven.
Speaker 8: I was disappointed in what Dylan Brown delivered when Mitchell
Speaker 8: Moses was out last year. When a fire mate as
Speaker 8: their main man, go down, sometimes it's really good learning
Speaker 8: and development for you to go wear the seven and
Speaker 8: find out what it takes. And he moved halfback and
Speaker 8: didn't really do too much.
Speaker 1: Well there it is in two of the sharpest minds
Speaker 1: in Knick on Dylan Brown whatsoever. But questioning whether were
Speaker 1: just saying he's an out and out six, he's not
Speaker 1: a seven.
Speaker 4: The other thing, going back to Doggie's point a moment
Speaker 4: ago about Jerome Hughes, I think there are similarities that
Speaker 4: potentially Dylan could turn into that running style seven.
Speaker 5: With a lot of coaching.
Speaker 4: That's what's happened with Jerome Hughes down in Melbourne with Bellamy.
Speaker 4: He's put years into this Blake to making him the
Speaker 4: player is today. The difference for the Knights is they're
Speaker 4: paying top dollar right now for him to potentially be
Speaker 4: that player down the track. And I think when I
Speaker 4: look back on Dylan Brown and how good a player
Speaker 4: he can be, I'll go back to the Test series
Speaker 4: before last year when they were playing the Kiwi's in
Speaker 4: the semifinal, Australia playing the Kiwis and he was not
Speaker 4: cited in that game. The following week he came out
Speaker 4: and he was nearly the best player on the field
Speaker 4: in the final. So that's what he's capable of. But
Speaker 4: too often we see what he did in that semi final.
Speaker 4: He has to do that every week if he's going
Speaker 4: to be on that sort of money up there?
Speaker 5: You agree, dog, I do agree. I do agree.
Speaker 6: I'm curious to know Dylan Brown know whether he'll handle
Speaker 6: emotionally and psychologically this price tag.
Speaker 5: It's a very heavy burden to carry.
Speaker 6: It's right, when you're on seven eight hundred thousand, that's
Speaker 6: what you're expected to perform as. But when you're on
Speaker 6: one point three, every mistake you make, every blunder you make,
Speaker 6: you were going to be known as the one point three.
Speaker 3: Million dollar pick up the phone and asked Ben Hunt,
Speaker 3: because every time the Dragon's loss it wasn't Dragons, there
Speaker 3: was Ben Hunt.
Speaker 6: And you know what, that's what you have to carry
Speaker 6: though when you agree to this car burden him or
Speaker 6: the club, well both.
Speaker 4: He will week to week when he runs out, he'll
Speaker 4: feel the pressure. Plenty of players, like you just said,
Speaker 4: plenty of.
Speaker 3: Felt that either.
Speaker 4: But my concern is just as much for the fans
Speaker 4: and the club up there, because this is a long
Speaker 4: term deal and if it backfires, how do you get
Speaker 4: out of it?
Speaker 2: How do you get out.
Speaker 4: Of it when he's basically locked in through the least.
Speaker 3: Years time. Concern the guys that make the Tamalala deal.
Speaker 3: Are they still let the Cowboys?
Speaker 5: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think the concern is when Sally got there and
Speaker 1: we spoke about it on here, is that the cat
Speaker 1: was a mess. It really was, and then he's had
Speaker 1: to clear the decks and make a few moves. And
Speaker 1: this is a lot of money to spend on a
Speaker 1: player like Dylan. But yeah, and I'm not saying it's
Speaker 1: not going to be a success, and they have home
Speaker 1: to the world. It could very much. It could be
Speaker 1: a master Strogan. Sally's renowned for it too. He's made
Speaker 1: some magnificent calls as as a recruitment officer in the past,
Speaker 1: so you know, his record speaks for itself.
Speaker 2: Sally, he could be one of his best ever. It
Speaker 2: could be the opposite.
Speaker 5: Excuse me break that. There are clauses. I checked him today.
Speaker 5: It's toward the back end though.
Speaker 6: It's about two thousand and thirty four and thirty five,
Speaker 6: which seems.
Speaker 5: Like an attorney whose favor the club's favor.
Speaker 6: What you use it, thirty four and thirty five, So
Speaker 6: that's the kind of gives you the normally of the deal.
Speaker 5: But exactly you still possibly it's.
Speaker 6: Not for the club though the player, so obviously Newcastle
Speaker 6: learn off Paramatta not to give the player the option.
Speaker 6: It's a club auction and they're claiming it's to protect
Speaker 6: both parties.
Speaker 2: That's interesting, all right. What about Ponger? Is it at
Speaker 2: the risk of.
Speaker 1: It feels like they've made this decision in this call
Speaker 1: to keep him happy and to keep him at the
Speaker 1: club because there has been rumors and a bit of
Speaker 1: speculation that he you know, he was getting itchy feet.
Speaker 2: What's our thoughts on this?
Speaker 4: Well, They've probably got a year or so to make
Speaker 4: sure that they can prove to him that it will work,
Speaker 4: because you look the rumors, the mail doesn't go away
Speaker 4: that there's interest from the roosters. Ponger is if he's
Speaker 4: not the best player in the game, he's in the
Speaker 4: top three. He's certainly as dangerous as anyone out there.
Speaker 4: He can carry a team. And you know, like if
Speaker 4: they don't succeed, I struggle to see how they could
Speaker 4: keep him long.
Speaker 3: If I'm a Nights fan and I'm sitting watching, would
Speaker 3: they have gone to kl and Ponger and said, hey, mate,
Speaker 3: what do you think of this?
Speaker 1: Certainly they would have actually got recall him, so he
Speaker 1: would he would have he would have spoken to Dylan.
Speaker 5: I think a Sharp will be the one will take
Speaker 5: just as much pressure off Kaylen Pommer as Dylan Brown.
Speaker 5: I think he's more of a key at the moment.
Speaker 5: His roll on the side, well, Sharp Sharp is.
Speaker 1: Incredible player. I love him and who is one of
Speaker 1: the best on the weekend. He's a runner, He's the
Speaker 1: one that can get.
Speaker 2: A quick play of the ball.
Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, but he's very similar to Dylan
Speaker 1: in that way that he runs the ball, Dylan's more
Speaker 1: creative's better pass.
Speaker 4: And that's why Brown has to go there as a
Speaker 4: Saiven Sharpe is that he's the same, isn't He's a
Speaker 4: running five ag like when he took off from dummy
Speaker 4: half the other day. He's an opportunist and he's got
Speaker 4: blinding speed and that look. When I watched the game
Speaker 4: on the weekend, I thought, jeez, you've got a future here.
Speaker 4: This is a pretty brave call from Adam O'Brien to
Speaker 4: move him to the halves this year. And I thought,
Speaker 4: first up it was an outstanding six. Say he's got
Speaker 4: the potential to be a great five at The concern
Speaker 4: is having him with Dylan Brown as your heart's pairing,
Speaker 4: because the other bloke has to take control of the team.
Speaker 1: Who's the chief, is the maestro. It's going to has
Speaker 1: to be Brown, there's no doubt about that. Now who
Speaker 1: will replace him at PARAMOUNTA? The race is on and
Speaker 1: here are a couple of players or some ideas that
Speaker 1: we've come up with throughout the day. And unfortunately for
Speaker 1: West Tigers fans turn.
Speaker 2: Away Jerome Leui. Now Jerome Lewi has clauses in.
Speaker 1: His contract right so we'll get to I'll come to
Speaker 1: you soon on Doggie on this Lachlan Galvin is set
Speaker 1: to go to November one and to the open market.
Speaker 1: Hasn't re signed with the West Tigers, so he will
Speaker 1: be off contract at the end of the year.
Speaker 2: To irone.
Speaker 1: Wishard has been a great success in Melbourne and could
Speaker 1: be an option and bev and French for the Wigan Warriors.
Speaker 1: Has got the Man of Steel and was mad at
Speaker 1: the match in all of their big wins this year
Speaker 1: and all the trophies that they won over in Super League.
Speaker 2: Doggie Lewie taught me through this one.
Speaker 6: If you're a West Tigers fan, you would be most
Speaker 6: concerned about the relationship that Lewi formed.
Speaker 5: With Mitchell Moses last year in State of Origin. They
Speaker 5: became solid mates.
Speaker 6: They played the last two games together New South Wales
Speaker 6: was one kneel down, we won two, we won three,
Speaker 6: we win the series.
Speaker 5: They became solid mates.
Speaker 6: So clearly Mitchell, if called upon, would be there to
Speaker 6: try to help Lua Jerome away from the Tigers. He's
Speaker 6: off contract sorry as of November one this year. What's
Speaker 6: the clause for Jerome end of twenty six so both
Speaker 6: he and Galvin are available if they hit the open
Speaker 6: market as of November one, What wasn't.
Speaker 3: His reasoning to go to the Tigers to stop living
Speaker 3: in the shadow of another playmaker and to own a team.
Speaker 6: Correct, let me stress Boardy that the the Eels haven't
Speaker 6: come out and said we are chasing him.
Speaker 5: So we're speculating very early from you.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yes, are the Eels a chance they blaze Talungey,
Speaker 3: Lucky Galvin and Ethan Sauners? Right, so there are three
Speaker 3: young paramedic kids. Are they a chance of investing in
Speaker 3: their seventeen and nineteen year olds and putting all the
Speaker 3: money and hoping that one of their good young kids
Speaker 3: come through and doesn't go play at another club.
Speaker 4: In fairness to Paramatta, they were in a bit of
Speaker 4: a bind with Sanders and Ta Lungi, weren't they, because
Speaker 4: they thought they had Moses and Dylan Brown locked up
Speaker 4: long term. And for Ethan Sanders, you know, when the
Speaker 4: Raiders were chasing him, the opportunity to play first game
Speaker 4: potentially earlier was you know it was that was probably
Speaker 4: more important than the money that was available. So that's
Speaker 4: the problem for a club like that to invest in
Speaker 4: the future when someone can come and pinch them. I'd
Speaker 4: like to see Paramatta though, you know there's there's there
Speaker 4: are players out there. Wish Art would be a great
Speaker 4: example of a guy who's looking for that opportunity to
Speaker 4: step up and.
Speaker 5: Be either a five eight or hook er.
Speaker 4: I think he could handle being in the starting team
Speaker 4: in both your young bloke come peasant at the Storm
Speaker 4: he's he's you know, he's.
Speaker 3: Injury a super.
Speaker 2: Talent SI with Melbourne only in the off seats.
Speaker 3: How many clauses did you do?
Speaker 2: Clause in there?
Speaker 1: If your own stays at the club and resigns, he's
Speaker 1: officially off contract Jonah.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think we shout, we shouts a good
Speaker 2: option for them. Do you think that they will make it?
Speaker 3: His call? Is that now?
Speaker 1: I think he can November one this year as well,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. So you know it's going to be
Speaker 1: an interesting now.
Speaker 4: I think the difference here and for paramatter that potentially
Speaker 4: it's a safer bed, isn't it?
Speaker 5: Like if you're going for.
Speaker 4: These players, they're not on top dollar at the moment,
Speaker 4: and even if you would have double their waves, they're
Speaker 4: still not going to be anywhere near what the Knights
Speaker 4: have paid for Dylan Brown. I just think it's a
Speaker 4: safer bed to go for.
Speaker 2: Beg pardon.
Speaker 3: He left a million dollars, so you've got where you
Speaker 3: got to.
Speaker 4: But you don't necessarily have to outlay that on your
Speaker 4: next five eight. But you could certainly give one of
Speaker 4: these guys upgrade and put the head.
Speaker 1: If I look at this now, I think I couldn't
Speaker 1: see LOI, although I think it's it's a good idea
Speaker 1: and a possibility if as don't go so well this
Speaker 1: year and MAUI get second thoughts, that's an option. But
Speaker 1: Galvin Ben a paramount of Junior. He's got the same
Speaker 1: agent as Mitchell Moses. You know, he is a great
Speaker 1: player in the making, and that to me makes more sense.
Speaker 1: And he's obviously not quite comfortable at the Tigers because
Speaker 1: they've offered him upgrading extensions and he hasn't taken it.
Speaker 1: And again I go back to the agent, same agent. Right,
Speaker 1: do we see this is as a big chance?
Speaker 5: Well, he's resisting, bro.
Speaker 6: They're desperately hoping to nail him down before November one.
Speaker 5: But the moment the kid is resisting, which doesn't mean
Speaker 5: he's going to.
Speaker 6: Leave, but it's an early indication that he's still a
Speaker 6: little bit unsettled about his surroundings. You mentioned the agent obviously,
Speaker 6: Mitchell Moses. Agent Isaac Moses is also the manager of
Speaker 6: Lachland Galvin. Paramatta's got about one to one point two
Speaker 6: million up their sleeve through the Dylan Brown money for
Speaker 6: the next few years. So Parah's got money, They've got Moses,
Speaker 6: they've got a manager, and they've also got a.
Speaker 5: Kid who seems a bit unsettled.
Speaker 1: Own conclusions, what about Gus Guss has been talking about
Speaker 1: Gallvin b time?
Speaker 2: Is he interested? Do you think the Bulldogs can make
Speaker 2: you play at him as well?
Speaker 6: Or Gus will always be interested and he'll always keep
Speaker 6: his cards close to his chest.
Speaker 4: How could you not be interested in Lachland Galvin? Look,
Speaker 4: I think when when he's on the market, you go
Speaker 4: back to him potentially wanting to see what's out there.
Speaker 4: Why wouldn't he like he's If he's not the best
Speaker 4: young talent in the game, he's up in the top
Speaker 4: two or three and there will be a lot of
Speaker 4: clubs coming for him. I'd be shocked though. With the Bulldogs,
Speaker 4: they've already got Burton, yeah as a six.
Speaker 1: They need a genuine seven. Don't they so similar? That's
Speaker 1: what a few other clubs, right, It's an interesting one.
Speaker 6: Do I think the day is coming where all half
Speaker 6: back playmakers who are gun players are going to start
Speaker 6: at one.
Speaker 5: Minute and move north. That's the way it's moving, Like
Speaker 5: a quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 3: I go to junior foot a lot, and every kid
Speaker 3: wants to wear number one, like they And if you
Speaker 3: look at the NRL, yeah, everybody wants to play one
Speaker 3: because that's the glamor position at the moment. But when
Speaker 3: I was a kid, it was six and seven. Like
Speaker 3: it was six and seven, they were the best two
Speaker 3: positions that you could play. You are the best two players.
Speaker 3: And I think now it's you know, it's got to
Speaker 3: swing back to the number seven.
Speaker 4: I think though, with a problem and I've heard it
Speaker 4: mentioned before and I've certainly seen it over the years
Speaker 4: watching a lot of junior footy, is that there's so
Speaker 4: much structure in junior now, but there is Gordon, and
Speaker 4: it's a problem because there's so much structure with the
Speaker 4: young halves at the moment that come through the game,
Speaker 4: it takes a lot of their natural talent. When you're
Speaker 4: a young player, you could play all that eyes up
Speaker 4: footy and you basically went out and you weren't really coached,
Speaker 4: You just went out and played. And now almost every
Speaker 4: system I'm talking right across the country, they watch the
Speaker 4: big games and there's so much structure on these kids
Speaker 4: that they're probably overthinking their role instead of just getting
Speaker 4: out there and playing free flower for it.
Speaker 2: Totally agree.
Speaker 1: Now from left field you've gone with Bevan Frenchie Doggy
Speaker 1: just quickly is great. Great in the Super League over
Speaker 1: in Vegas, he said it a light would he come
Speaker 1: back to his old club in the halves.
Speaker 6: Well, he's a paramount of player as you know Brath
Speaker 6: and we saw in Vegas what he did. He was
Speaker 6: also i think man of the match in the Super
Speaker 6: League Grand Final last year with which Wigan won. He's
Speaker 6: got a lot of a friends still at Paramatta. He
Speaker 6: does have a long term deal oh at Wigan. But
Speaker 6: what's a long term deal worth these days? And generally
Speaker 6: both you're a player manager, you understand that if a
Speaker 6: gun player and this boke is goes to England, there's
Speaker 6: generally clauses in there that if the end of rull
Speaker 6: come knocking, I can go back home again.
Speaker 5: But he would be a brilliant.
Speaker 1: Six if you interesting to see how he would come
Speaker 1: back from Super League. I think it's a fascinating rugby
Speaker 1: league story. He played the outside backs here for paramount.
Speaker 1: He goes over there and is the best player in
Speaker 1: the competition as a half. He's come on leaps and bounds.
Speaker 2: Now you talk about halves market crawls. You've got some
Speaker 2: advice from.
Speaker 4: Airly Manly DCE Wow, you're watching him the other day.
Speaker 4: He's thirty six years of arge. I think he turned
Speaker 4: thirty six last month. And if I was Manly, I'd
Speaker 4: be putting a deal on the table now for at
Speaker 4: least the next two years and paying him full freight.
Speaker 4: Now you would like he is such a good player.
Speaker 4: He looks like he's got so much football ahead of him.
Speaker 4: They're so hard to find these top halfbacks. Why wouldn't
Speaker 4: you want to keep him for as long as you can.
Speaker 5: You look at those ten year deals. We make a
Speaker 5: bit of light of it, Braith, and I'm not a fan.
Speaker 5: I think it's just absurd. But DCE one is the
Speaker 5: only player I think where the ten year deal has
Speaker 5: been a raging success.
Speaker 4: He came through though and in his first year won
Speaker 4: a premiership. Correct, you know he'd proven that he was
Speaker 4: capable of doing that. But in saying that again, you
Speaker 4: go back to the fat Manly haven't won two thousand.
Speaker 3: Because he's running game is still strong and that's one
Speaker 3: of his assets. But as he gets slower, you watch
Speaker 3: you know the Thurstons and a Jason Smith, they get smarter.
Speaker 3: They're just their game, smart kick kicking game.
Speaker 2: I said that last night.
Speaker 1: It's been a raging success since he signed it and
Speaker 1: they haven't won a com you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like that's it's rolling, it's rolling the dice there at Newcastle.
Speaker 1: But it would you reckon he'll he'll play Origin, He'll
Speaker 1: stick with the Origin or.
Speaker 4: You'd think that there would be a lot of pressure
Speaker 4: from Queensland to wanted to see him stay.
Speaker 3: Who's the next best?
Speaker 4: Who's the next best Queensland seven at the moment, But
Speaker 4: Sam Walken's out injured. Will ben Hunt's proven Yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: Tom didn't those six months there. But ben Hunt's proven
Speaker 4: that he's best spot playing Origin. He's teaming up with
Speaker 4: Harry Grant at Walker.
Speaker 5: He's a great leader.
Speaker 3: I don't think Daly evens will walk away from state.
Speaker 5: He loves.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the sports Bet team selections
Speaker 1: for round two and there's some big ones or in
Speaker 1: for the Pairther's back on the wing, Alm he moves
Speaker 1: to center. Humphreys retains his half spot for the Bunnies
Speaker 1: and Dodd named in New South Wales Cup. Now now
Speaker 1: I dropped to the reserves list, replaced by o'donald the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Lane returns for the Eels, Bullet and Chorus out huge
Speaker 1: inclusions for the West Tigers and much leaders and for
Speaker 1: sam Ai returns after that Round three ACL last year,
Speaker 1: which is a great return there for the Gold Coast Titans.
Speaker 2: But the big one to start off with is is Humphreys.
Speaker 1: After that impressive performance for the Bunnies in Round one
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins, maintains his position at seven.
Speaker 4: They had no option, did they like you? He came
Speaker 4: on in that trial match against the Dragons. He was
Speaker 4: outstanding there on the weekend. He was superb. He's so strong,
Speaker 4: he's so calm, he teams up well with Cody, tackles
Speaker 4: everything that moves and he's kicking game like. He not
Speaker 4: once did he really look under pressure.
Speaker 2: He just seems to have time on his hands. Wayne
Speaker 2: had no option.
Speaker 3: But to keep him struggle. The only way you see
Speaker 3: it changing If the nine gets injured, he might have
Speaker 3: to push in and play nine because he's a bigger
Speaker 3: body and that's where he had most of his pre season.
Speaker 5: I wonder whether Manly might have some regret for that.
Speaker 5: Why this young boy?
Speaker 1: Yeah I agree with that, but what about seaous and
Speaker 1: Dodd six hundred and fifty thousand dollars he's playing reserved.
Speaker 6: You know what, I feel a bit sorry for The
Speaker 6: kid's been absolutely hammered, condemned, criticized. It's a new team,
Speaker 6: a new comp and a new country.
Speaker 5: Can we look I know, the pressure being number.
Speaker 6: Everybody him or the decision well, have it his performances.
Speaker 6: But it's a couple of trial games and he's played. No,
Speaker 6: he hasn't, but he hasn't. But can we just give
Speaker 6: him a little bit of time.
Speaker 4: Everyone's going to give him time. But the fact of
Speaker 4: the matter is he is in New South Wales Cup
Speaker 4: this week, so it becomes a talking point. The other
Speaker 4: young guy has come in and from what we've seen
Speaker 4: so far, and it's very early days, but he looks
Speaker 4: like a player that could stay there for a few years.
Speaker 5: God will take time.
Speaker 4: He's come from a different comp I'm sure the club's
Speaker 4: going to stick by him, but you've still got to
Speaker 4: send the best players out on the field. You can't
Speaker 4: kid yourself and think, well, you know, we made this
Speaker 4: decision because we're paying him so much money to play
Speaker 4: the other It's.
Speaker 1: Just been a bizarre decision from the start of the
Speaker 1: DoD One. It really has, because all reports coming out
Speaker 1: of Super League from the second they signed him was it.
Speaker 1: I hate saying it, but like he spoke, I spoke
Speaker 1: to a few people over there and they said, you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's a good player in Super League, but a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of the people were shocked that
Speaker 1: he signed for so much to come over here and
Speaker 1: play in the top grade and in the best league
Speaker 1: in the world.
Speaker 2: So I found a bizarre from the start.
Speaker 6: And Wayne wasn't I hadn't signed formally. I don't think
Speaker 6: when Dodd was signed he.
Speaker 2: Would do we.
Speaker 5: Do we believe that Wayne had some approval in Dodd's signature.
Speaker 3: Let me say this, If it works out, Wayne, I'll
Speaker 3: go well, I wanted the kid, and if it doesn't,
Speaker 3: they go well. The decision was made without me.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I know again that was good.
Speaker 3: There was speculation at the time, wasn't there.
Speaker 5: And I do know that Christian Wolf.
Speaker 4: He coached on it didn't he over and so Helen
Speaker 4: so so I know that he had a rap on
Speaker 4: Dodters a play and.
Speaker 1: But apparently the Dolphins knocked him, knocked him back, and
Speaker 1: the Roosters and then he saw his house.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 6: Not a lot of Pommy halfbacks have really hit the
Speaker 6: big time in Australia.
Speaker 5: George Williams did a couple of years ago, and Gregory
Speaker 5: I'm just saying I think the bum rap.
Speaker 1: I'm out, Jager, stop criticizing, all right. Todd Payton didn't
Speaker 1: shy away from his decision to drop Jeremiah.
Speaker 2: And I.
Speaker 9: Yep, Jeremi is an elite attacking player and he needs
Speaker 9: to improve some defensive parts of his game and he's
Speaker 9: going to get some time in the Q Cup to
Speaker 9: do that.
Speaker 3: So it was an easy decision.
Speaker 9: But yeah, it just felt was important for the group that,
Speaker 9: you know, if we want to improve as a team,
Speaker 9: defense's first and foremost there.
Speaker 2: This is a big call from coach Peyton.
Speaker 1: Jeremiah and I arguably one of the best back rollers
Speaker 1: in our game dropped after round one.
Speaker 10: It's one round though, one round.
Speaker 3: It's not the first time he started the season slow.
Speaker 3: I remember when they came back from like a tour
Speaker 3: and he got all the jersey played for Queensland, plaid
Speaker 3: for Australia and he came back slow.
Speaker 4: You got to put in the hard work when you're
Speaker 4: a second year, didn't he after he'd gone away on
Speaker 4: the tour.
Speaker 3: Yes, And it took in about eight to ten weeks
Speaker 3: to find his form again, and I didn't know whether
Speaker 3: he was going to play State of Origin. Well it's
Speaker 3: happened again.
Speaker 6: He's fearless Toddy peytonough, wasn't he because remember when he
Speaker 6: first signed he got teal Mala off side by dragging
Speaker 6: him off the field and he was getting fifteen to
Speaker 6: twenty minutes. He got his gun player off side within
Speaker 6: it at the first two weeks. Now skip forward a
Speaker 6: couple of years he's got and then I dumped from
Speaker 6: first grade after game one.
Speaker 5: So whether Peyton's drop.
Speaker 2: Not a great message.
Speaker 3: So when you put all those jerseys and you're a
Speaker 3: great player and you play rep footy and then you
Speaker 3: get held accountable, I think it's a great like. It's
Speaker 3: a great listen to the dressing room, especially with those
Speaker 3: young kids.
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Speaker 3: Gee, the Broncos looked hot, didn't they.
Speaker 4: Hears and Carrigan through the middle led the way they
Speaker 4: carved him up on both edges. Hunt was fantastic, Reynolds
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Speaker 4: Man hadn't received the suspension he did. Because now we
Speaker 4: know that Reynolds and Hunter getting on in years, potentially
Speaker 4: they won't play every game in the season. It just
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